Some dude has been dumping a bunch of PJ stuff at a local used CD joint. I've picked up about ten 2000 tour boots, import singles of Jeremy, Daughter, and Go, and the Last Kiss single. The store wants $10 each for the boots, but hey, these rock, and I didn't pick any up back when they were readily available. The singles are cheap, like $4-5 each.

HMI, did you see that you could order past X-Mas singles through the TenClub (while supplies last)...I don't have the prices here in front of me but you may want to check that out instead of buying them from me...

Got this info from my brother yesterday RE: Easter Eggs on the Live at the Garden DVD...

I was surfing the web last night and I came across this nugget. You can see the Hunger Strike performance from Mexico City on the Live at the Garden DVD.

Put in the first disk. You need to press "title" or "search" on your DVD remote. On my player I pressed "search" and it brought up a screen that let me type in a number to jump to a scene. I typed in 2 and it came up. it's no Chris Cornell, but it rocks.

So I've been listening to The Lost Dogs* a little bit this week, and as I am, I'm thinking to myself, "Damn, the second half of 'Hard to Explain'--that's like the best stuff they've done since the old days".

And, on a lark, I checked out the liner notes, and wouldn't you know it--"Hard to Explain" was actually a Vs.-era song.

Mike McCready appeared on Seattle radio station KISW for about 30 minutes. Some things worth mentioning: Pearl Jam will be working on their next album at the end of the year. Mad Season has 10 unreleased songs, sans lyrics, with which Mike has been trying to get something started with Mark Lanegan. It appears that PJ will be doing a few gigs later this year, for political reasons, and in swing states. Mike loves refried beans.

There are some really cool Pearl Jam happenings being worked on for this fall. There could be some shows - maybe acoustic, maybe not, a possible CD of some sort, and it's possible the band may head back to the studio towards the end of the year to begin work on their eighth album. As far as new music from side projects goes, some releases are possible but not definite. It's amazing what tea leaves can reveal. That was fun!